{"id":1375628,"date":"2022-03-14T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375628"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:36:18","slug":"populist-leader-green-politicians-closing-nuclear-plants-are-putins-useful-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/populist-leader-green-politicians-closing-nuclear-plants-are-putins-useful-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Populist Leader: Green Politicians Closing Nuclear Plants Are Putin&#039;s &#039;Useful Idiots&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpopulist-leader-green-politicians-closing-nuclear-plants-are-putins-useful-idiots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Populist Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie\u00a0\u00c5kesson has slammed European Green politicians, blaming their policies for making Europe reliant on Russian energy and enriching the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5kesson said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war have been exacerbated by Green policies, such as closing down nuclear plants, that have led to a dependence on supplies of natural gas and oil from Russia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe option of refraining from imposing sanctions involving Russian gas and oil was, in my opinion, never a real possibility. This is because 40 per cent of Russia\u2019s GDP comes from oil and gas exports, money that goes straight into Putin\u2019s war chest,\u201d \u00c5kesson wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/debatt\/grona-partier-har-varit-putins-nyttiga-idioter\/\">opinion article<\/a> for newspaper <em>Expressen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA war chest that the West, because of na\u00efve politicians, has already financed for a long time, in its search for cheap energy. It is not a morally justifiable act and, with hindsight, it is about pure blood money,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Labelling the Greens \u201cthe useful idiots of Russia and Putin,\u201d\u00a0\u00c5kesson went on to blame the shutting down of nuclear reactors in Sweden for soaring electricity prices in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>To counter the surge in fuel prices, \u00c5kesson stated that the government should reduce fuel taxes and reduce the electricity tax by 25 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government blames \u2018Putin prices\u2019 but the fact is that about 55 per cent of fuel prices are tax. Our neighbouring countries do not suffer from the same sky-high prices. Difference? Swedish politicians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, early closures of Swedish nuclear power, the permission of Russian gas exports through Swedish waters and bans on uranium mining on Swedish soil, have seriously contributed to enabling Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine. All of this could have been stopped by Swedish politicians.\u00a0It is high time for new politicians, politicians who are not Putin\u2019s useful idiots,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Germany Ignores Looming Energy Crisis, to Close All Nuclear Power Plants <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kAFTPsILJD\">https:\/\/t.co\/kAFTPsILJD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1501925043743436802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russian government has also been accused of covertly funding anti-fossil fuel groups in Europe in order to keep Europeans dependent on Russian energy, with the former Danish prime minister of Anders Fogh Rasmussen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/jun\/19\/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking\">accusing Russia<\/a> of working with environmentalist NGOs in 2014 when Rasmussen served as the head of NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have met allies who can report that\u00a0Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations \u2014 environmental organisations working against shale gas \u2014 to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas,\u201d Rasmussen said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, United States congressmen Lamar Smith and Randy Weber <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/596304-investigate-russias-covert-funding-of-us-anti-fossil-fuel-groups\">wrote a letter<\/a> to then-Treasury\u00a0Secretary Steven Mnuchin claiming that Russia had used shell companies in Bermuda to funnel money to various NGOs and claimed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had admitted at a private dinner that Russia funded NGOs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Europe\u2019s Russian Gas Addiction Under Pressure as Kremlin Threatens to Cut Supply <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wD1qX6SorI\">https:\/\/t.co\/wD1qX6SorI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1501238816685768707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populist Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie\u00a0\u00c5kesson has slammed European Green politicians, blaming their policies for making Europe reliant on Russian energy and enriching the country. \u00c5kesson said that the Russian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}